'Iron Sky' CGI Scenes and Special Effects Rendering

'Iron Sky' will soon be in the states. You may be a sci-fi special effects aficionado and the dark style of Fourth Reich Space Nazis on the attack may hold strong appeal. Its flavor is sort of Mad Max-meets-Star Wars and many want a taste. There are more scenes from the movie than in the trailers, plus how they appear before and after CGI. It's quite good!

A second video provides a tour of the 'rendering farm' with Samuli Torssonen, the movie's 33 year old special effects producer. Torssonen enumerates in passable English a full list of software: Autodesk Maya, Newtek Lightwave 3-D, Foundry Nuke and Adobe Creative Suite 5 for scene composition. There's also a peek inside one of 40 Intel I-7 rigs with 16 GB Ram that performed around-the-clock rendering under control of time management program called Render Pal. It can't help but interest even slightest geek!

mexico city ufo

Annie Lask saw and heard the UFO, at right, just 20 meters above her, on August 6th, 1997 in a northern suburb of Mexico City. Lask noticed a purple haze in the air and an audible hiss and said, "the outer rim was spinning very fast". The witness doesn't remember getting down from the roof, where she spotted the UFO and had symptoms afterwards. Lask experienced headaches and her eyes burned on a daily basis. You can judge for yourself as to the authenticity of the video in a brief two part You Tube Video of the 1997 sighting. In part two, David Froning, a propulsion engineer with 30 years experience at McDonnell Douglas, judges the UFO to be real and jet powered. Two special effects artists with Digital Domain differ as to whether it is a hoax, but agree the UFO is actually in the picture and not computer generated imagery, or, CGI. Lask's observations leave a critical mind to wonder about the origins of the "purple haze or mist" and the "hiss"? The two part video documentary is less than a half hour about one of the most memorable UFO sightings ever!